
Episode 14: The Greek Word Horde
The History of English Podcast
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The Origins of the Indo-European Language
Most of the words in English that begin with autocomprom Greek or at least from that Greek root. Macros meant large so it gave us words like macrocosm and macroeconomics. Thermos meant hot so we get words like thermometer and thermal from Greek. Monose meant single or one and produced all the mono words - monologue, monolithic, monopoly, monarchy. Hamos meant same so it gaveWe words like homogenous and homonym. Palis meant many so we get polygamy, polygraph, polytheism. Protos meant first and it gave usWords like prototype, protocol,. In linguistics the very earliest version of a language is usually called the
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